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pletely annihilated and -wiped off tbo
face of the earth, on the field of bat
tie hardly anything being left to
mark the spot where it "went down to
defeat or where it was swallowed up
in the deep blue political sea, after it
had ruled over this nation for almost
forty years.
Former Mayor Edward P. Dunne was
elected governor of this state, with
both hands down, and every candidate
running on the Democratic ticket.
The new governor elect, is loud in
declaring that he owes his election to
the people who had faith in him and
in his ability to manage their state af
fairs and to the splendid management
of his campaign manager, "William L.
O'Connell and to his assistant man
ager, former Alderman John J. Brad
ley, it was through their splendid and
fine work that his great victory was
won.
State Senator Prank H. Punk, the
Bull Moose candidate for governor of
Illinois badly defeated Governor
Charles S. Deneen in Ms race for re
election, and for some time to come the
G. O. P. and its leaders are down and
out in this state.
Peter M. Hoffman, to the great de
light of his many friends both Dem
ocratic and Bepublicans defeated
Alderman Dennis J. Egan who voted
for Alderman Ellis Geiger's resolution
ii. the city council a few weeks age,
calling on Mayor Carter H. Harrison
to revoke the saloon license of Jack
Johnson, in the race for Coroner uf
Cook County.
'The other officers in the county ex
cept the President of the County
Board which was captured by Alexan
der A. McCormiek, BepubVcan and
Harry Olson, Chief Justice of the
Municipal Court, went to the Demo
crats. Hons. James T. McDermott, Martin
B. Madden, Thomas Gallagher, James
B. Mann and A. J. Sabath were re
elected to Congress in their respective
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Fourth Congressional District.
congressional districts.
Hon. Edward D. Green and .Major
Bobert B. Jackson, were defeated in
their contests for the Legislature in
the First and in the Third Senatorial
districts and it is the first time in
manv vears. that an Afro-American
has not been elected to the Legislature
of this state.
Our hiEhly esteemed friend, the Hon
orable William Sulzer, was elected
Governor of New York state, in .the
memorable landslide, with more than
two hundred thousand majority, and he
will make the best and the most hon
est Governor that that state has ever
had.
A SENSIBLE VIEW OF JACK
JOHNSON.
A. P. Tone Wilson, editor of the X
Bays Democrat, the only Democratic
newspaper published in Topeka, Kan
sas, hits the nail square on the head in
the following editorial squib:
"Jack Johnson, the Colored cham
pion pugulist of the world, is in the
lime light once more. They claim he
has disgraced Chicago. What a pity
to disgrace so pure a city. Better
see to the thousands of poor white
girls who are living in the underworld
of Chicago and give Jack Johsnson
and the 19 year old White gal a rest
as she may not be worth the space she
lis receiving in the press."
Too true, too true, Editor Wilson,
when the real facts are known, respect
ing the fast conduct of Miss Cameron,
long before she ever met Jack John
son, the people in Chicago and through
out the country will hang their deceit
ful and their hypocritical heads in
shame when it fully dawns on their
race prejudice and befuddled minds
that they permitted themselves to go
craxy or mad not in behalf of a pure
and innocent young lady; far from it
but they worked themselves up to
fever heat over a lady much older than
sweet 19 who understands the art of
making love to both White and Col
ored gentlemen, providing that they
have plenty of money in their pockets.
Editor.
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THEBE ABE SEVEBAL IMMOBAL HOUSES IN THE BED LIGHT DISTRICT
FmLED WITH COLOBED WOMEN WHOSE SOLE DUTY IT IS TO
AMUSE AND TO MAKE LOVE TO WHITE GENTLEMEN.
Any law that protects the virtue of
woman is a blessing to civilized in
telligence. If the law was created to
protect Caucasian women only, then
it is bias and is dangerous to civil
ization, for any law that will protect
one slave and let the other suffer vio
lence is destructive to all. Having a
law that will protect the Caucasian
woman from the vice of men is all
right if it gives the same protection
to women of other races. If under the
term "White Slave Traffic" the same
protection is given to women of other
races, then the law is a blessing, if
not, then it is bias. Men of all races
have long enslaved women among
their own race and even outside their
own race. There are in this country
today more whito men guilty of slave
traffic of Negro women than Negro
men of Caucasian women. In many
large cities there are houses of pros
tution in which Colored young women
and many under the age of maturity
are slaves and Colored men are not
allowed to enter. These places are
frequented by Caucasian men and are
supported financially by them. In
cases of this kind the law should give
as much protection to the Colored
women as it does to the Caucasian.
In protecting the women of all races
we preserve the virtue of all men.
The law does an injustice to the Cau
casian woman if it does not give equal
justice to her Colored sister. For in
stance, take a Caucasian slave and a
Negro slave in traffic, the one is as
much harmful to the good wife and
children, if her husband is inclined to
be immoral, as the other, whether he
is Caucasian or Negro. The noble and
virtuous Caucasian women suffered
much harm in days of Negro slavery
from this very evil; thus we see the J
result of it to this very day. The
body cannot be divided; if one part is
decayed it will in time decay the
other part. Then why not preserve
the -virtue of the Caucasian men by
checking the vice practiced with Col
ored women and change the term
"White Slave Traffic" and style it
"Female Slave Traffict" We should
not spare the Colored man who would
dare practice the traffic of his own
women any more than if he attempted
it with Caucasian women. The law
should not be less lenient with the
Caucasian that is guilty of traffic of
women of any race than it is with the
few Colored men who practice it with
women of the Caucasian race. The
Appeal, Columbus, Ohio, November 2,
1912.
The above article is full of the ab
solute truth in every Southern city of
any size, including St. Louis, Mo., New
Orleans, La Bichmond, Va., Atlanta,
Ga., and so on. There are any num
ber of houses of prostitution full of
Colored women and they are kept in
stock or trade for the sole use of
white gentlemen and the Colored
women who run or conduct the houses
are constantly looking or hunting
around for the youngest and the
most beautiful Colored girls, to ad
minister to the passing pleasure of
the White gentlemen who frequent
and support them, and if any Negro
should be rash or bold enough
to attempt to enter one of these
houses he would be shot down like a
common mad dog for attempting to
place himself on social equality with
white gentlemen.
Aside from these Colored houses of
prostitution for Southern white gentle
men, many of the most prominent and
many of the wealthiest white gentle
men throughout the Southern qtates
maintain lewd and b,razen faced Col
ored women in fine homes for their
own private use, and provide for them
in every way, and if any Negro at
tempts to make himself fwinur frith
his Colored women in any way, these
white gentlemen, who boastfully claim
to represent the highest type of man
hood of the so-eaSed superior race, will
shoot the Colored man on the spot.
These same white gentlemen who
spend most of their leisure time with
their Colored mistresses and sot in the
company of their own wives and sweet
hearts, are ever ready to mob and
lynch any Negro, burn his body at. the
stake or swing it up to the limb of
some tree and riddle it with bullets,
if lie is merely suspected of looking
at a white woman.
This class of Southern white geatle-
fmen, who violate the laws of morality
and decency in a brazen-faced manner
and the laws which they have them
selves enacted for tho separation of
the races, justify their more than bar
barous conduct in burning the Negro
at tho stake in the presence of thirty
to fifty thousand people, including
men, women and little children, on tho
theory that no Negro must ever be per
mitted to touch any kind of a white
woman, when they, tho white gentle
men, set the example and encourage
him to do so, by their open and
notorious and unlawful relations with
Colored women.
It is unnecessary to travel to the
fair Southland to find immoral houses
filled with Colored women for the en
tertainment of white gentlemen, for
they are located in many of the North
ern cities. It is a well known fact
tnat two of this kind of houses are
located in the neighborhood of Twenty-
first and Dearborn streets, in the red
light district, and for a number of
years they have been filled with the
most beautiful and the youngest of Col
ored girls, for the amusement of white
gentlemen. Some of these girls that
have been obtained for these houses
by the two Colored women that con
duct them have been under the age
of consent. But tho reformers and the
advocates of the strict enforcement of
the white female slave traffic have
never paid the slightest attention to
these glaring facts.
Possibly those who have made so
much fuss in the last two or three
weeks over Miss Lucile Cameron and
her wild conduct entertain the idea
that young Colored girls, many of them
orphans, possess no rights which white
gentlemen are bound to respect, and
that they are created with no higher
mission on earth than to administer to
the unnatural passions of these white
gentlemen.
THE JACK JOHNSON HYSTHttTA.
Without stint . wo have recently
criticised Jack Johnson and with him
the other comparatively few Colored
men who, obtaining a small measure
of worldly success, have wronged their
race by foolishly and needlessly going
out of it to marry. "It has been too
often the case," we then said, "that
Colored men who have achieved
prominence have apparently sought
to forsake their race by taking as
the companion of their bosom either
a cast-off or mediocre woman from the
Caucasian race. Other Col
ored men, if they would, cannot take
the bold Caucasian woman into their
family or social circles. White men
of standing not only do not brook the
spectacle, they conceitedly point to
the example as an evidence of the
black man's lack of race pride, his
desire to be white and the general
unworthiness of his race. The
number of Colored women is legion,
fit both to honor and make happy the
home of any man, however great or
good."
But even all Jaek Johnsons are free
men in this Bepublic. The mountain
that is being made out of the mole
hill of the young white woman's al
leged fascination for the prize fighter,
in whose employ she had been for a
year, by the sensational anti-Negro
press of the country is one of the most
dastardly attempts upon the part of
the yellow press to foment race strife
throughout the country that this na
tion, has recently seen. Already some
red-eyed, shallow-pated Texan has
volunteered to lead one hundred other
silly Southerners to Chicago to chastise
Jaek Johnson. Privately, we should
like to tip him off to sot invade the
black belt of the Windy City with
ten or one hundred times his present
select one hundred Texans. The rabid
anti-race press, we fear, is reckoning
without its host. Bace wars come
soon and often enough without their
artificial manufacture. While the
blaek pugilist is not guilty of abduct
ing the 19-year-old young woman, the
entire episode, sot unlike those of the
unheralded love of scores of white men
for Colored women, 4s disgraceful, ut
terly unworthy the attention of honest
white or black people. How amy it
would be, ior example, for the Colored
people of New York City to go out on
a rampage against the white race be
cause a prominent white married Har
lem real estate dealer is alleged to
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HON. THOMAS GALLAGHER.
Be-elected to Congress from the 8th Congressional District.
have won the love of his comely Col
ored stenographer. Why doesn't the
daily press exploit the constant at
temDted "mashinjr" of Colored ladies
on the streets by white ment Why
doesn't it exploit the alleged infamous
relations of such prominent Soutnern
white men as the two recent candi
dates for Governor of South Carolina 1
The press would do a wise and helpful
thing to cut short its diabolical at
tempt to raise race hysteria because of
Jack Johnson. The Amsterdam News,
New York City, N. Y., November 2,
1912.
Tho editor of the Amsterdam News
has struck the bull's eye right square
in the center and for one we are
ready and willing to enter into, or to
join a nation-wide movement on the
part of the Colored press for the pur
pose of hunting up undisputed evi
dence against all white gentlemen who
greatly delight to "mash," make love,
to hug and kiss, and to sustain unlaw
ful relations with Colored women, and
to publish such cold facts to the world
For in our opinion that is the only
or the best way to stop them and the
rabid editors of the daily newspapers
from shooting off their race prejudice
mouths against the whole Colored
race simply because a few Colored men
here and there feel like coming in con
tact with a certain class of white
women, while on the other hand, these
same white gentlemen, and some of
the editors of their daily newspapers,
with their hip pockets full of money,
loudly boast that they can catch or
get any Colored woman that they may
happen to fancy.
Showing that they ' are first class
degenerates and savages at heart.
Editor.
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P. W. BLOCKI
Newly elected Democratic member of tie Beard of Seriew.
MOTION PICTUBES WHJ. AID BE)
CBOSS SEAL SALE.
James Oppenheim Writes Dnsitit
Story for Anti-Tuberculosis Cam
paign. "Hope" is the title and the lead
ing note in a new motion picture filn
which will be released for exhibition
on November 16th, by Thomas A. Edi
son, working in co-operation with The
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Ths
scenario of tho picture was written
especially for the anti-tubercnlosij
campaign by James Oppenheim, aod
the film will be used during the next
six weeks as a special feature of the
Bed Cross Christmas Seal Sale.
The story, as portrayed by Mr. Op
penheim, tells of a young banker ia
little New York town by the name of
John Harvey and of his bookkeeper
Wells, with whose daughter Edith the
banker is in love. A few weeks before
the holiday season, Harvey one day
receives a letter and some literature
from The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis,
asking him to engage in a tuberculosis
campaign in his district, to form a com
mittee to sell Bed Cross Christmas
Seals, and to work for the erection of
a local sanatorium. He shows the ma
terial to his old bookkeeper and both
the men laugh .at the idea that a
country district need engage in such
fight. Tuberculosis, they believe, is
thing only of the city slums. Care
less and unthinking, howerer, "&
puts some of the pamphlets i"
pocket and forgets the incident.
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